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The Duke of York is gone down thither this day, while the Generall sat sleeping this afternoon at the Council-table. 4th. Here I stood bare, not challenging, though I might well enough, to be covered.
He knew nothing of her love for the Duke, but when the latter questioned him about her health, he said, "There is only one chance of restoring her health. She must go back on the stage." The Duke jumped. "Impossible!" he said. "Why impossible? Her fiance is dead." The Duke spoke to the man of science.
"The tyrant," he continued, "would rather stain every river and brook with our blood, and hang our bodies upon every tree in the country, than not feed to the full his vengeance, and steep himself to the lips in our misery. Therefore we have taken up arms against the Duke of Alva and his adherents, to free ourselves, our wives and children, from his blood-thirsty hands.
Gentlemen, the duke is commander of our armies of land and sea; pay him your respects, if you please, in that character."
She prayed his Grace, therefore, out of old good friendship, to take up her cause, and use his influence with the Lord Duke of Stettin to obtain the proebenda for her, also to send a good scolding to her brother at Stramehl under his own hand." Now my gracious Prince was so anxious to get rid of her, that he promised everything she asked.
Only Diana Duke retained enough rigidity to say the thing that had been boiling at her fierce feminine lips for the last few hours. Under the shadow of tragedy she had kept it back as unsympathetic. "In that case," she said sharply, "these cabs can be sent away." "Well, Innocent must have his bag, you know," said Mary with a smile. "I dare say the cabman would get it down for us."
Oh, Lumley, how I despise all that I see and hear!" "What, even the Duke of ?" "Yes, I fear even the Duke of is no exception!" "Your father will go mad if he hear you." "My father! my poor father! yes, he thinks the utmost that I, Florence Lascelles, am made for, is to wear a ducal coronet, and give the best balls in London." "And pray what was Florence Lascelles made for?" "Ah!
The ministry escaped censure when the vote was taken by a bare majority. In the summer of 1840 Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by Lord Lyttleton, went to Eton to examine candidates of the Newcastle Scholarship, founded by his political friend, the Duke of Newcastle. Mr.
MY DEAR FRIEND: Very few celebrated negotiators have been eminent for their learning. The late Duke of Marlborough, who was at least as able a negotiator as a general, was exceedingly ignorant of books, but extremely knowing in men, whereas the learned Grotius appeared, both in Sweden and in France, to be a very bungling minister. This is, in my opinion, very easily to be accounted for.
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